Interview with actress Diane Kruger, Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival

October 3, 2023

Diane Kruger on her career celebrated in Zurich: "Thanks to cinema, I feel like I’ve been allowed to feel really really strongly"

Interview with actress Diane Kruger, Golden Eye Award at the Zurich Film Festival Chiara Nicoletti

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The 19th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 28 – Oct 8) is paying tribute to German actress Diane Kruger for her outstanding career and great versatility, awarding her with the Golden Eye Award for her achievements. The actress is also presenting in Zurich, her most recent movie “Visions” by Yann Gozlan as an international premiere.

Speaking perfectly three languages, and, to quote ZFF, “one of the most in-demand actresses of our time” Diane Kruger has worked for such legendary directors as Quentin Tarantino, Wolfgang Peterson, Robert Zemeckis, Fatih Akin, Neil Jordan, Agnieszka Holland, Benoît Jacquot and Bille August.

In “Visions“, a passionate thriller in which she plays a pilot dealing with a lover from her past, she talks about how complicated love and relationship can be.

As the Golden Eye Award makes her look back at her career, she reveals how, when she was younger, she felt her emotions were too big for her and how cinema allowed her to feel strongly about things.

The actress also talks about her longstanding collaboration with German director Fatih Akin and about the role models in her life, from her grandmother to important cinema figures such as Romy Schneider and Marlene Dietrich.

Plot

Estelle is an airline captain who leads a luxurious life on the Côte d'Azur with her husband, the doctor Guillaume. When she accidentally meets the photographer Ana at the airport in Nice, her bourgeois life is turned upside down. She had a passionate affair with Ana 20 years ago. Now the fire of passion flares up again in Estelle and, caught between husband and lover, fate steers her life in new directions. Yann Gozlan's VISIONS is an erotic psychological thriller reminiscent of the cinema of Brian De Palma and plays with the mythology of the Côte d'Azur as a place where the border between reality and appearances blurs.
The film is carried by an outstanding Diane Kruger, who receives a Golden Eye for her career achievements.

Written by: Chiara Nicoletti

Zurich Film Festival